Father Dirt

Rural Australia, 1900. Five years have passed since the slope gave out and the dirt fell, but the body of Matthew Faulds has yet to be exhumed.

Mary Faulds, twenty-four years old and five years widowed, struggles to move past the loss of her husband while managing the farm left to her and raising the couple’s only child, a bright five-year-old named Lilith.

Mary’s problems worsen when, from atop the mountain of dirt that took Matthew from them, Lilith claims she can speak to her lost father from beyond the grave. As Lilith begins delivering sermons in her father’s name, Mary’s grip on the farm, her family, and her sanity wane. Plagued by disturbing omens, bodily horrors, and the rise of a dirt worshipping cult, she must fight and suffer with all she has to try and find peace for her lost love and a future for their child.

Father Dirt is a Gothic Horror/Suspense novel that explores grief, greed, faith, and the dangers of groupthink.